[AT] shop equip

[John Hall]

Only if everything survives!!! I picked the lift up Monday, its piled 
outside. I-beam is hard to get unless you order it. I tried 3 fab shops, 
none stock it. H beam is a different story. I beam should be here Tues, 
coming out of Charlotte. Heck, most of the Harbor Freight stores were 
out of the gantry cranes, I had to drive 45 minutes to one that had it 
in stock.

On 8/13/2021 5:41 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
> Pictures when you are done or it didn’t happen. (-;
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>> On Aug 13, 2021, at 5:36 PM, John Hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com> wrote:
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>> Kind of quiet on the list so here is a bit of fodder.
>> The time has come to add a new piece of shop equip. The only lifting mechanism in the farm shop here is a generic engine hoist. I need to pull the engine out of my small Deere combine so after much deliberation I have decided to install a gantry hoist. I bought a Harbor Freight 1 ton hoist and am in the process of replacing the top I-beam with a larger and longer one. When done it will span the width of the shop. It's on wheels so I can keep it in the back and then roll it to the front for projects. I had a engineer friend run analysis on the "conversion" and it will safely hold 1,000 lbs (about the weight of the engine).
>> I hope to get it installed next week, got about 5-6 weeks before the combine needs to go to the field.
>>
>> John Hall
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